When I was 6, I entered the world of slumber parties. A night of dancing, laughing, truth or dare and one girl being tortured for falling asleep first. Eventually the parents of the house started to loose their cool and grumble about us going to sleep. Eventually we all did.
Two weeks ago my daughter turned 6. Like clockwork she asked for a slumber party birthday! I groaned, but allowed it to happen.
They were wonderful little girls, who laughed, played games and chased after fireflies in the dusk of the night. But like all girls before them, they too were told to go to sleep, many, many times.
When the last girl went home the next morning, my daughter and I looked and felt terrible. We do not do well when we are short on sleep. Yet I know my daughter will ask to have and go to many more slumber parties in her life....and I will allow it.
There is so much to be learned and experienced when spending countless hours with friends. Conversations get to take their full course, relationships grow, feelings get hurt and mended. And you learn about life, love and boys in the whispered darkness.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Jenny McCarthy
Isn't it funny how once you start thinking about something or someone, it seems like they are everywhere?
A few weeks ago I was looking for something to watch on Hulu and stumbled across "Love in the Wild." It's a silly reality show where 12 men and 12 women try to get to know each other and find love, all the while doing difficult things in the wilds of the Dominican Republic. I love the idea of adventure and love, and thought it was a fun, though not really romantic, show. The host was Jenny McCarthy.
I couldn't remember what she had done. "MTV" my husband stated.
The next week I was looking through my library's audio files to find a book to listen to and I found the book "Love, lust and faking it, The naked truth about sex, lies and true romance." Isn't that a great title! It was by Jenny McCarthy. I never read any of her other books, but people had mentioned they were funny, so I downloaded the book.
It has mixed reviews, but I liked it. It was funny, but not hilarious. But more than that, I could relate to it. She is a woman of my age, trying to figure out how to be happy in this world. How to love herself and feel satisfied. Isn't that what we are all trying to do?
In listening to the book, I learned that while she might have done MTV, she got her start posing for playboy. For some reason it makes me happy that my husband didn't know that fact.
A few weeks ago I was looking for something to watch on Hulu and stumbled across "Love in the Wild." It's a silly reality show where 12 men and 12 women try to get to know each other and find love, all the while doing difficult things in the wilds of the Dominican Republic. I love the idea of adventure and love, and thought it was a fun, though not really romantic, show. The host was Jenny McCarthy.
I couldn't remember what she had done. "MTV" my husband stated.
The next week I was looking through my library's audio files to find a book to listen to and I found the book "Love, lust and faking it, The naked truth about sex, lies and true romance." Isn't that a great title! It was by Jenny McCarthy. I never read any of her other books, but people had mentioned they were funny, so I downloaded the book.It has mixed reviews, but I liked it. It was funny, but not hilarious. But more than that, I could relate to it. She is a woman of my age, trying to figure out how to be happy in this world. How to love herself and feel satisfied. Isn't that what we are all trying to do?
In listening to the book, I learned that while she might have done MTV, she got her start posing for playboy. For some reason it makes me happy that my husband didn't know that fact.
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